Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After his successes with the Navy crews of 1920, '21 and '22, "Dick" decided to retire and he assisted his son at Annapolis and later at Columbia, until "Rich" had gotten his '"coaching-legs." From late rowing results it is evident that "Rich" now has them...
...Davis, whose popular fame rests largely upon the cup he donated to international tennis, is rich, 50, a Harvard man. He began his career as Public Baths Commissioner of St. Louis. During the War he served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Regular Army, won the Distinguished Service Cross "for extraordinary heroism" in operations at Baulny and Chaudron Farm, France, Sept. 29-30, 1917. He became an Assistant Secretary of War in 1923, was the first World War army veteran to be advanced to the head of that department...
...Ambassador, especially to France, he would be most fortunate in his wife. His first wife, Lady Lee Phillips of Memphis, died in 1915. Six years ago, aged 48, he married Miss Camilla Loyall Ashe Sewall, some 20 years his junior, beauteous daughter of a rich and celebrated ship-building family of Bath, Me. She has borne him four children (the fourth arrived last month [TIME, May 6]). There are few things which the French admire more than Beauty, Motherhood, Wealth...
...visa fees : "France has so many advantages over Britain for the attraction of Americans that we can ill afford to put any obstacles in the way of the potential visitor. There is a tendency on this side of the Channel to imagine that all American travelers are so rich that a few extra dollars in the way of fees will not weigh one way or another. That is quite wrong...
...passenger carriage, but more especially to have sure buyers of the planes he was making at Seattle. He got into plane-making literally by accident. One day in 1917 he grew angry because his private plane cracked up with him. He decided that he could build better ones. A rich lumber and mining man, he could and did put vast wealth into the industry. His factory is now rated the largest in the U. S. devoted exclusively to the manufacture of airplanes. His transport systems are the largest in the world. Systems and factories were recently bought into United Aircraft...